Services

Designer and Storyteller

Web Design

I have experience in designing websites using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, Bootstrap, GitHub and Wordpress.

Print Design

I work at the San Marcos Daily Record designing and laying out the pages of the daily newspaper, as well as special sections, magazines and other publications.

Storytelling

I love telling stories mainly through a camera lens, but I also do some reporting for the San Marcos Daily Record.

Portfolio

This portfolio contains examples of work in design (both web and print), videography and reporting.

Beautifying San Marcos one traffic box at a time

Reporting

Race Over, Shark Rider Remains

Reporting

Chitah Daniels Kennedy: Socialite, Superstar, Slut

Videography

Alcohol Sales

Website Design and Data Visualization

Student Government

Videography

The Local

Videography

Skills

HTML / CSS

Javascript

JSON

Social Media

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premier Pro

Adobe Audition

About Me

My name is Colton Ashabranner. I just graduated from Texas State University San Marcos, Texas. I now have a bachelors degree in Electronic Media and Mass Communications with a concentration in Digital Media.

After graduating in the spring of 2017, I still call San Marcos home.

I'm the lead designer at the San Marcos Daily Record. We publish the Daily Record as well as the Wimberley View, Dripping Springs Century News, Dripping Springs Magazine as well as various other magazines and special sections.

When I'm not designing, I'm usually drawing, painting or drinking a margarita.

Contact Us

Do you think I could help you out with a design? Message me.

Beautifying San Marcos one traffic box at a time

In efforts to add color and vibrance to the city streetscape, four traffic control boxes owned and maintained by the city were given a makeover as a project by the San Marcos Arts Commission.

“San Marcos has a great vibe. It’s very accepting of all sorts of different viewpoints and expressions of art. I think that the mural arts project, the mini mural project and the addition of public art sculptures will continue to bring us to the next level as a community that people aspire to live, work and play in,” Morris said.

Date: February 2017

Published: San Marcos Daily Record

Photography: Denise Cathey

Category: Reporting

Race over, Shark Rider remains

Even though her campaign has ended, its artwork lives on.

“I had people around town wearing my buttons after
I lost. I don’t know how much more thankful I can be that people are wearing my buttons and asking to buy my literature, so I’ll give the public what they want,” she said.

DAILY RECORD PHOTO by Colton Ashabranner

Chitah Daniels Kennedy

Socialite, Superstar, Slut: A Minidocumentary.

Chitah Daniels Kennedy shares her passion through being the drag mother of Stonewall Warehouse in her hometown of San Marcos, Texas.

Produced by Colton Ashabranner and Travis Tyler

Alcohol Sales

Alcohol Sales in San Marcos on the Square

I built the site and the data visualizations using Bootstrap, JSON, Javascript and Python.

Student Government Elections

I was the photographer and editor for this news story on Bobcat Update.

The Local

I was the photographer and editor for this news story on Bobcat Update.